GENUS PARIETARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Parietaria mean? 

• GENUS PARIETARIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS PARIETARIA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of stingless herbs

  Familiarity information: GENUS PARIETARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PARIETARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of stingless herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Parietaria; Parietaria

Hypernyms ("genus Parietaria" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Parietaria"):

Parietaria difussa; pellitory; pellitory-of-the-wall; wall pellitory (herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Parietaria" is a member of...):

family Urticaceae; nettle family; Urticaceae (a family of plants of order Urticales including many nettles with stinging hairs)